[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Manalapan 10-27-1993 by Ord. No. 93-30 as Ch. 29 of the 1993
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The terms used in this chapter are hereby defined
as follows:
Any interest which shall yield, directly or indirectly, a
monetary or other material benefit (other than the duly authorized
salary or compensation for his services to the municipality) to the
official or employee or to any person employing or retaining the services
of the official or employee.
The local governmental unit under which the official or employee
is functioning.
Any person elected or appointed to, or employed or retained
by, any public office or public body of the municipality, whether
paid or unpaid and whether part-time or full-time.
Any person, firm, association, group, partnership or corporation,
or any combination thereof.
Any interest arising from blood or marriage relationships
or from close business association, whether or not any financial interest
is involved.
Any agency, board, body, commission, committee, department
or office of the municipality.
No official or employee shall request, use or
permit the use of any consideration, treatment, advantage or favor
beyond that which it is the general practice to grant or make available
to the public at large.
No official or employee shall request, use or
permit the use of any publicly owned or publicly supported property,
vehicle, equipment, material, labor or service for the personal convenience
or the private advantage of himself or of any other person. This rule
shall not be deemed to prohibit an official or employee from requesting,
using or permitting the use of such publicly owned or publicly supplied
property, vehicle, equipment, material, labor or service which it
is the general practice to make available to the public at large or
which is provided as a matter of stated public policy for the use
of officials and employees in the conduct of official business.
No official or employee, either on his own behalf
or on behalf of any other person, shall have any financial or personal
interest in any business or transaction with any public body in the
municipality unless he shall first make full public disclosure of
the nature and extent of such interest.
Whenever the performance of his official duties
shall require any official or employee to deliberate and vote on any
matter involving his financial or personal interest, he shall publicly
disclose the nature and extent of such interest and disqualify himself
from participating in the deliberations as well as in the voting.
No official or employee shall engage in private
employment with, or render services for, any private person who has
business transactions with any public body of the municipality unless
he shall first make full public disclosure of the nature and extent
of such employment or services.
No official or employee shall appear on behalf
of any private person, other than himself, before any public body
in the municipality.
No official or employee shall, without prior
formal authorization of the public body having jurisdiction, disclose
any confidential information to advance the financial or personal
interest of himself or any other person.
No official or employee shall accept any money,
favor or loan that would not be offered or given to him if he were
not an official or employee.
[Amended 6-20-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-09]
All local government officers of the Township, as defined in
the Local Government Ethics Law,[1] shall annually file a financial disclosure statement as
required by N.J.S.A. 40A:9-22.6 and any applicable regulations adopted
thereunder.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40A:9-22.1 et seq.
Any appointed official or employee of the Township
of Manalapan who shall violate any provisions of this chapter shall
be guilty of misconduct in office and shall be subject to suspension,
demotion, dismissal or removal from such office for such acts as the
Township Committee may deem, by majority vote of its membership after
written charges are filed with the Township Committee regarding such
violations and after said Committee shall have set the matter down
for a formal hearing before it and shall serve upon the accused a
copy of the charges and designate a date and place for hearing, which
shall be accomplished not later than 15 days after such charges are
formally filed with it. At least 10 days' notice of such hearing,
in writing, shall be given to the accused to afford the accused an
opportunity to be heard at said hearing in the event the accused so
desires.[1]
